Perficient Supports with COVID-19 Hackathon
As we know, customer engagement goes beyond customer service. As businesses around the world grapple with the impact of COVID-19 (more commonly known as Coronavirus), digital has the power to help organizations respond quickly while mitigating risk.
No stranger to hackathons, Perficient continues to create solutions to support the fight against COVID-19. Here, our team shares what it’s like working on such relevant and important projects.
“COVID-19 has changed priorities suddenly for a lot of people, including for many of our clients,” explains Michael Greenlee, Director of Customer Care Solutions. “Being able to have an impact and solve some immediate problems makes it easier to deal with the challenges we’re all facing right now. The team wanted to put our skills and our partners’ technology platforms to use, and showcase what can be done in just a few days, in the hope that the solutions we build might help someone deal with the pandemic.”
READ MORE: Get the details of the COVID-19 Hackathon here
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About the Solution
This is an offloading system that reduce the number of calls in queue by offering options like callbacks to ensure as many callers as possible can be helped.
Rob Zaffino, a Technical Architect on the Twilio Flex team, said, “Although we had no medical expertise to help on the front lines, we felt that we too had a skill set that could help out with the consequential fall-out from the effects of COVID-19. Our decision process was inspired from our own experiences from the last few weeks of the pandemic.”
GO INSIDE: See thoughts after Day One of the COVID-19 Hackathon
About the Solution
This system offer callers waiting in queue the option to participate in an SMS conversation to more quickly handle their concerns.
Learn more about using SMS with Amazon Connect Chat
Jack Sombeck, a Lead Technical Consultant on the Amazon Connect team, shares, “Hackathons are great for building teamwork as well as software, and I enjoyed working closely with Ben and Jordan. We targeted a technically difficult problem and I was pleased to come up with a solution that could be applied to the COVID-19 crisis!”
Ben Yoo, a Technical Consultant on the Amazon Connect team, said, “Personally, I am glad that Perficient responded to this crisis and turned it into an opportunity to potentially help people as quickly as possible. Not only was I was impressed with all the projects (only in a span of 3 days!), but I was proud of our company being proactive and trying to make people’s live a little better.”
“I was excited to be able to work with Ben and Jack in a green field project. It was great to see the ways in which the various teams came together so quickly to get to walking skeleton with their ideas. I feel that it was a solid idea to frame the project ideas within the domain of COVID-19 response, though I suspect that many of the projects had components which can be applied to a larger range of circumstances,” explains Jordan Russell, a Technical Consultant on the Amazon Connect team.
About the Solution
This interactive phone menu allows callers to check their symptoms against CDC guidelines and obtain local hospital information using Amazon Connect.
Learn more about using Twilio to build a remote workers solution
Warren Spencer, a Lead Technical Consultant on the Amazon Connect team, said, “It felt great contributing to a potential solution larger than any one of us alone could have built for challenges we all face during the COVID-19 crisis.”
READ MORE: See the Day Three check-in from our COVID-19 Hackathon
About the Solution
We created a quick set up voice notification service for community-based organizations using the Twilio Flex platform.
Andy Gilbert, a Solutions Architect on the Twilio Flex team, said, “I am relatively new to Perficient. Perficient’s acceptance and support of remote work prior to the current situation was a big reason I chose to come here. With all the uncertainty of what we are going through, to pivot like this and focus outward, on ‘how can we potentially help’ was amazing. So many great ideas came out of this. Regardless how they end up, this decision will stand out.”
About the Solution
A tool for rapid remote assessment of potential COVID-19 cases. Their solution will include a symptom checker, risk scoring, and immediate routing of high-risk cases to a remote medical professional, with the option of adding a telehealth voice or video call.
Adam Hadlock, a Lead Technical Consultant on the Twilio Flex team, opens up to say, “”With everyone being isolated and working from home it’s tough to feel like it would be possible to make a difference. This hackathon helped us feel like we were actually building something that might be able to make a difference.”
Perficient’s COVID-19 Insights
Perficient’s latest insights feature a growing number of resources and insights from our thought leaders designed to help businesses drive operations forward and deliver experiences their customers need amid this unexpected challenge.
See Perficient’s COVID-19 Insights
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